Knitted fabric



F.l L. PORTE' y NITTED FABRIC Filed March l2, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet- 1 31mg, @ma

elttoznels F. L. PORTE KNITTED FABRIC Filed March 12, 1925 2 Sheets- Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 2, 1928.

UNITED STATES FIBEIIDJEIRIIIGK L. PORTE, 0F UTICA, N EW YORK.

KNI'TTED FABRIC.

.Application ledMarch 12, 1925. Serial No. 15,031.

' My present invention relates to that class of knitted fabrics composed of a basic web and iieecing threads other than the basic web threads and which fleecing threads are placed into the stitches of the basic web at all or certain of the courses of stitches, and knitted into-such stitches.

The purpose of my invention is to provide an improved fabric of the type described and one which is readily made, very durable in service and well adapted to allow the fabric to be used for many purposes.

A further purpose is to provide a fabric of the class described wherein the fleecing threads are positively knitted into the basic fabric so that the fleecing threads will not work out and cannot be pulled out from the basic web, thus allowing the fabric to be used in many places of hard service where on previous fabrics the ileecing threads would sooner or later be drawn out from the. basic fabric either' leaving` the fabric entirely or hanging therefrom in long strings. On account of the permanency of the fleecing threads of my fabric, the fabric is particularly well adapted for the hard usage incident to wash cloths, dish cloths, towels and the like.

A further purpose is to provide a fabric wherein such knitted-in fleecing loops may be provided for either or both sides of the fabric and to allow such flee'cina' loops to be of as 2great a length as desired in order to give the fabric great weight or body such as is desirable in wash' cloths, towels. and fabric intended to be'formed into wearing apparel.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a fabric wherein the iieecing loops may be easily placed in a great variety of ar'- rangements or relative positions such as having a course of fleecing loops at alternate courses of stitches upon the opposite sides of the fabric.

Further purposes and advantages of the invention will appear from the specification and claims herein.

Fig. 1 is a view on a greatly enlarged scale of the back or connecting thread surface of a portion of knitted fabric embodying my invention, and showing iieecing loops extending Fig. 3 is a similar view nf a piece of fabric showing fleecing loops projecting only from the front or wale side of the fabric.

Referring to the drawings herein fora more particular description, it will be seen that I have illustrated my invention by placing the Heecing loops upon a basic web commonly known as a simple plain web, such as is usually produced by a single series or circle of needles `all knitting at each feed with one thread.` Ordinarily my 'invention will be used in connection with sucha plain basic web; but the invention is not necessarily limited to such a web and certain of the claims i herein are not limited to the basic fabric beina of such a plain web.

Fromthe basic web thread 7 (indicated in the drawings as the clear white thread) there is knitted the basic web having vertical rows of stitches 8 which form wales 17 on one surface of the fabric (hereinafter called for convenience and detiniteness the front side of the fabric or the wale side of the fabric) with these stitches severally connected to the adjacent stitches in the same horizontal course by the said basic web thread 7 extending horizontally as connecting threads 9 which connecting` threads 9 are located on the other side of fabric (hereinafter called the back side of the fabric or the connecting thread sideof the fabric).

.It will be understood that in the drawings the space between the two legs of a stitch loop and the space between adjacent stitch loops and also the space between successive courses of stitches are shown greatly exaggerated relative to the size of the thread in order to more clearly illustrate the construction of the fabric. In the actual fabric the rows and courses of stitches are close to each other and forni with the knitted-in part of the fleecing threads a relatively compact fabric and the different series of tleecing loops extendfrom .either or both sides of the fabric so close together as to project out from the body of the fabric in the usual way of heavily fleeced fabric. f

From a fleecing thread 10 there is formed along` any given course of stitches a series of fleecing loops 11 projecting' .from the connect- Y ing side or back of the fabric. from both the front and the back surfaces In Figs. 1 and 2 this series ofy iieecing loops 11 are shown as present at alternate courses of the fabric. The thread to form these fleecing loops is passed through the upper part or eye of the loops in a course ofthe basic fabric as at course D and the two leg pnrtrms ai the knitted portion of the loop extend up to 4the next course as to the course E to have pass .therethrough at the course E the beginning of another set of loops of the basic web or of other ieecing loops. The outwardly projecting loop 11 is really the connecting thread of this leecing thread extending from one row of stitches to adjacent `and opposite rows of stitches. It will be noticed particularly that the fabric ends of this fieecing thread' goes through the eye of the loop at one course of stitches as yD and then goes up tothe next course of stitches as E to serve as part of the eye of the loopat such second course of stitches 'to have the succeeding co-urse of stitches project therethrough. It will thus be seen that there is no possibility of the outwardly projecting lleecing loop 11 being pulled bodily` from the fabric. Furthermore', it is so thoroughly knitted into the two courses of stitches that the individual length of the projecting loop 1l is maintained against even the most severe usage. Y

In Fig. 1 the projecting loops 11 appear as more or less regularl formed semi-circular inverted arches 'for t e reason that the two `threads going from the opposite ends of the son that these loops come up from the fabric at an appreciable angle. It will be understood that t e loops may be of any desired length and that the angle they assume relative to the body of the fabric will vary according to the v .relative size and character of the respective yarns, the size of the needles and the general character of the fabric produced.

From a supplemental or leecing thread 12 there is formed along an given course of stitches a series of leecing oops 13 projecting from the front or wale side of the fabric. In Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, these fle'ecing loops 13 are shown as present in alternate courses of the fabric and in the fabric as ,shown in Fig. 1 these loops alternate with the other series of loops 11. This arrangement is simply one desirable arrangement of the loops 13 and of the series of loops 11 and 13 but is not the only or necessary arrangement within the purview of my invention.

The threads forming thesev loops 13 are likewiseknitted into the basic fabric by being passed through the upper art or eye of the loops in a course of the asie fabric as at course C'with the two leg portions of the knitted portion of the loop extending up to the next course as to the course D to have passed therethrough at the course D the beginning of another set of loops of the basic web in any event and in most embodiments of my invention the beginning of other leecing loops either of the series l1 or 13. These loops are really formed from the connecting threads of -through to the other or front or wale side of the basic fabric forming on that side the loops proper 13 which appear as relatively pointed loops with the intermediate portions 14 being the only part ofthe connecting threads left on the back side of the fabric and with base portiogls 15 of this thread used to go through the fa ric.

It will be noted that the sharply point-ed app'earance of these loops 13 is caused `by these loops being pushed through the fabric with the two-base portions 15 of each loop being crowded close together and held close together by reason of their being located between the -adjacent leg portions of twoadjacent stitches of the basic web. These loops 13 will also usu- 'ally be longer relatively than shown in the plan view drawings for the reason that they extend from the body of the fabric at an appreciable angle thereto. It will be understood that this series of loops 13 may vary in length as desired according to the purpose ofthefabric and that the angle of the loops will vary according to the character of the fabric. The loops of these series are especially inclined to be at irregular angles to the body of the fabj ric and also to have the plane of the loops twisted to one side or the other incident to the two base portionsV 15 ofeach loop being so close together as to exert little .influence to hold the projecting loops 13 in any particular position.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a knittedfabric, a basic web having stitches arranged in longitudinally extending rows and laterally extending courses and supplemental yarns knitted into the stitches of the basic courses, the connecting threa-ds of certain of said supplemental yarns extending outwardly in fleecing loops from the body of the fabric at certain courses on one side of the fabric and the connecting threads of the other supplemental yarns extending outwardly in fleecing loops from the body of the fabric at certain courses on the other side of the fabric.

2. In a knitted fabric, a basic web having stitches arranged in longitudinally extending rows and laterally extending'courses and supplemental yarns knitted into the stitches of the basic courses with their connecting threads formed on one side of the fabric, the connecting threads of certain yarns extending outwardly in leecing loops from the body of the fabric at certain coursesr on one side of the necting threads of the basic web with the certain courses on the 'other side of the fabric.

3. In a knitted fabric, a basing fabric having its wales on one side and its connecting.

threads on the other side extending directly between opposite stitches in adjacent rows and supplemental yarns knitted into the stitches of the basic fabric, the connecting threads of certain of said supplementary yarns extending out in loo-ps from the Wale side of the basic fabric and the connecting threads of the other supplementary yarns extending out in loops from the connecting thread side of the basic fabric.

4. In a knitted fabric, a basic fabric having its wales on one side and its connecting threads on the other side ext-ending directly between opposite stitches in adjacent rows and supplemental yarns knitted into the stitches of certain vof the courses with their connecting threads formed on the same side as the conconnecting threads of certain of Said-supplementary yarns extending out in loops from the Wale side of the basic fabric in certain of the courses andv with the connecting threads of the other supplementary yarns extending out in loops from the connecting thread side of the basic fabric in certain other courses of the fabric.

5. In a knitted fabric, a basic fabric havl' connecting threads formed on the same side r side of the basic fabric in certain of the courses, and from the connecting thread side of the basic fabric in certain other courses of the fabric. y

In witness whereof I have atiiXed my signature, this second day of February, 1925.

FREDERICK L. PORTE. 

